Lead Software Engineer - Accounting Systems

Publix - Lakeland, FL

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Lakeland, FL

1,001-5,000 employees

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

The Lead Software Engineer for Accounting Systems at Publix Technology is a senior role focused on enhancing complex systems and creating technical solutions for manual business processes. This hybrid position requires collaboration within a cross-functional team, hands-on development, and support for existing applications. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, servant leadership qualities, and a commitment to continuous learning, with a minimum of 5 years of full-stack development experience.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development work within a cross-functional team environment utilizing agile and SDLC methodologies.
• Communicate effectively with management, peers, technology vendors, and business customers through writing, verbal communication, and presentations.
• Lead the design and development of software applications, creating high-level architectural specifications and ensuring feasibility, functionality, and integration with existing systems/platforms, and participate in development tasks under the guidance of others.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex software issues, optimizing application performance and scalability.
• Perform data analysis by creating and executing complex queries, interpreting results, and communicating findings to technical and non-technical teams.
• Analyze and translate business requirements into user stories and/or design documents that consider system architecture, performance, and scalability for robust technology solutions.
• Ensure software meets security standards and adheres to change management and compliance policies, as well as relevant regulations.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality, performance, and adherence to best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for business processes, code, APIs, and system architecture, ensuring it is up-to-date and accessible to the team.
• Collect and document business requirements from stakeholders, analyze business processes to identify areas for improvement, and create detailed documentation including business requirements, functional specifications, and process flows.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, proposing, and implementing improvements to development processes and tools.
• Ability to participate in production support rotation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related analytical field, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience designing enterprise class solutions using object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns, UML, service-oriented architecture, and solution frameworks.
• 7+ years of experience leveraging .NET Core (or .NET Framework 4.0 or above) including C#, MVC, Web API, and Microsoft Entity Framework.
• 5+ years of experience working with one or more of the following frontend technologies: Angular, React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• 5+ years of experience working with SQL Server including database design and authoring complex queries.
• 5+ years of experience translating business requirements into scalable technology solutions and managing solution delivery in large-scale distributed environments.

Nice-to-haves

• 1+ years of experience managing automated deployments with Octopus tools and working in both agile and waterfall development environment using Azure DevOps.
• 3+ years of experience with the following technologies: SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS.
• 3+ years of experience with GIT source Control / Azure DevOps.

Benefits

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Group health, dental and vision plans
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria